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No. 6|7,295. Patented Jan. 3, 1899. A. E. MORRIS.

CIGAR BAND.

(Application filed May 7, 1898.)

(No Modal.)

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litre ALBERT E. MORRIS, OF MONTREAL, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN MIOI-IAELS, OF SAME PLACE.

C l G A R B A N D SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,295, dated January 3, 1899.

Application filed May 7, 1898. $erial No. 680,075. No model.)

To all whom it Uta/Z] concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. MoRRIs, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented an Improvement in Cigar- Bands, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

It has been desirable in the manufacture of good cigars to mark each individual cigar, in order that it may be identified by the consumer, and to do this cigar-manufacturers put on their cigars bands, these bands being designated as cigar-bands. These bands, as now employed, are made as paper rings, which embrace the cigar, and in removing these bands they are either slid off or some instrument or frequently the finger-nail of the user is put between the edge of the band and the cigar to break and thus remove the band, and in practice it has been found that the removal of the bands as described breaks the fine delicate external wrapper of the cigar, thus injuring the same, and the difficulty of removing the band without injuring the cigar is very inconvenient to the consumer.

It has been my aim to produce a cigar-band which can be readily detached from the cigar without any longitudinal movement of the band on the cigar or without any liability of destroying the external wrapper or surface of the cigar. In my experiments I have solved this difficulty by providing a band presenting one or more tabs or projections, preferably extending laterally to the longitudinal axis of the cigar, capable of being easily grasped between the thumb and finger, a slight pull on said tab or projection disrupting the band and detaching the same from the cigar.

My improved cigar-band is composed of an easily-separable material, preferably paper, because of its cheapness and because it may be readily printed upon or ornamented to present the name of the maker and the brand.

It will be obvious that a brand of the character defined as constituting my invention may be variously modified in its construction, and I have herein shown several modifica tions of my invention; but it will be understood that these different modifications do not by any means show all the varieties and shapes which would come within the scope of my invention, which consists, essentially, in

a cigar-band composed of an easily-separable material presenting one or more tabs or projections, which may be easilygrasped without engaging the wrapper of the cigar, strain on said tab or projection parting the band and detaching it from the cigar.

To enable this band to be more readily parted, it may be provided with a line or lines of weakness-such, for instance, as a series of perforations.

Figure 1 shows a blank from which to produce a cigar-band embodying one form of my invention. Fig. 2 shows the said band applied to a cigar; Fig. 2, a section across Fig. 2 through the band. Fig. 3 shows a modi fied form of band, and Fig. 4 shows it applied to a cigar; Fig. 4:, a section on the line 00.

Fig. 5 shows yet another modification of my invention, and Fig. 6 shows it applied to a cigar.

The blank shown for the band a, Fig. l, is supposed to be composed of some easily-sepa= rable material--such, for instance, as paper. This band is cut in one or more places, as at at, removing, preferably, some of the material of the band, leaving a well-defined tab or projection, as a. A little mucilage is applied to this band at one end, as at a and in applying this band the mucilage may be moistened and the band wrapped about the cigar, as shown in Fig. 2.

In applying the band the curving of the body of the band about the cigar has atendency to cause the tabs or projections a to stand out laterally somewhat from the body of the cigar, so that they may be easily grasped when it is desired to part and remove the band from the cigar.

The band in Fig. 1 is represented as provided with a line of weakness, the same being constituted by a series of openings or perforations, as at a In Fig. 2 the band I) is notched at one edge, as at b, and it may also have a line of Weakness, as at b. To apply this band to a cigar,

as in Fig. 4-, a notched part b of the band will be put into another notched part there of, leaving the tabs or projections b extended ready to be grasped between the thumb and finger.

In Fig. 5 I have shown a band 0 made by cutting two slits c c in a blank, leaving the ends of the band to form tabs or projections 0 In this band the cigar is slipped into the two slots while the wrapper is green and strong, leaving the tabs 0 extended from the cigar, as shown in Fig. 6. This band may also have lines of weakness, as at a, so that by slightly pulling 0r straining the band it will part in such lines.

As a general thing the tendency of the tab or tabs will be to rise by their own resiliency from the surface of the cigar as soon as the latter is taken from the box or package, standing out laterally from the curved surface of the cigar to be readily grasped by the thumb and finger of the user. Should the tab remain fiat, however, the adjacent part of the band acts as a shield interposed between the wrapper of thecigar and the finger-nail or other device employed by the user to lift the tab.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cigar-band composed of an easilyseparable material to embrace the cigar and present one or more lateral tabs 0r projections adapted to be readily grasped between the thumb and finger, slight strain on the band parting the same and enabling it to be removed laterally from the cigar, substantially as described.

2. A cigar-band presenting one or more tabs or projections extending laterally to the long axis of the cigar and which may be grasped and. subjected to slight strain to part the band, the material of the band serving as a shield interposed between the cigar and the tab, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ALBERT E. MORRIS.

Witnesses:

H. BRODIE, R. J. LOWERY. 

